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Washington, D.C. — Today, Congressman Joe Neguse announced that Colorado will receive $181,560,111 from the Federal Transit Agency (FTA) for Fiscal Year 2022, this includes appropriated amounts from both the Mass Transit Account of the Highway Trust Fund and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
View his opening remarks HERE.
Washington D.C.—Today, Congressman Joe Neguse, Colorado’s first and only Black Congressman, issued the following statement on the passing of Gloria Tanner, who served as the first Black woman in the Colorado State Senate.
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Washington D.C.—Today, Congressman Joe Neguse, the only member of the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis from the Rocky Mountain region, and Chair of the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands, issued the following statement in response to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report.
With crews still responding to the NCAR fire that forced thousands of people to evacuate over the weekend, a panel on Wednesday stressed that these types of events are part of the growing cost of climate change in Colorado.
While the NCAR fire has been mostly contained with no damage to structures or lives lost, the early spring fire combined with the recent destruction of the Marshall fire has made the impacts of Colorado’s changing climate all the more visible to legislators and their constituents.
View Congressman Neguse’s testimony here.
View his remarks here.
See photos of the visits here.
WASHINGTON (KDVR) — The NCAR fire is just the latest reason one lawmaker is trying to get Congress to allocate more money to wildfire prevention.
Congressman Joe Neguse has been working on legislation to address wildfires since the end of last year. The bills have not had much movement in Congress, but he is hoping the latest wildfire outbreak will get his colleagues to work a little faster.